LECTIO - Leuven Centre for the Study of the Transmission of Texts and Ideas in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance KU Leuven
The Leuven Centre for the Study of the Transmission of Texts and Ideas in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance conducts research in the domain of intellectual history, with a focus on authority. Its researchers concentrate more specifically on the following research programme.
It has become fashionable to understand the rupture of the 16th century as a transition from the authority of texts and authors (auctoritates), ...